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We All Fall Down
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We All Fall Down
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We All Fall Down

Written by Michael Harvey

Narrated by Stephen Hoye

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Chicago cop turned private investigator Michael Kelly is racing to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed underground.

When a lightbulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures, people begin to die, especially on the city's grim West Side. Hospitals become morgues. L trains are converted into rolling hearses. Finally, the government acts, sealing off entire sections of the city-but are they keeping people out or in? Meanwhile, Michael Kelly's hunt for the people who poisoned his city takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago's West Side gangs and the even more frightening world of black biology-an elite discipline emerging from the nation's premier labs, where scientists play God and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrecy.

It's a brave new world . . . and the most audacious page-turner yet from an emerging modern master.


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LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 12, 2011
ISBN9780307939623
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We All Fall Down
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Michael Harvey

Michael Harvey is the author of seven previous novels, including Brighton and The Chicago Way. He’s also a journalist and documentarian whose work has won multiple News & Documentary Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. Raised in Boston, he now lives in Chicago.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Bioterrorism. Lucky for Michael Kelley that he has lots of folks watching his back. The most terrifying part of the book is that the USA still doesn't have a plan to deal with a bioterrorism attack in our own back yard.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What I thought was a delightfully ambiguous ending to The Third Rail turned out to be a cliffhanger, as We All Fall Down picks up immediately after it left off. Thus, I won't spoil the set up of the fourth novel in this excellent series because doing so would detract from The Third Rail. I will say, however, that We All Fall Down is Michael Harvey's most ambitious mystery to date--both its scope and its stakes. I'm eagerly awaiting the next novel in this series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I haven't read previous books in this series so maybe it affected my impression. I found a flow of action somewhat broken, plot sometimes implausible and characters not always believable. At the same time, the writing is good and easy, action is very fast - in other words it's an easy read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Bit of a disappointment as I've really enjoyed the previous books in the Michael Kelly series and while there is enough in this one to keep me waiting for number 5 but ...... there should be more than that. Opening chapters rely too much on you appreciating who the characters are and their roles from preceding book. The pace does pick up at the end for a dramatic conclusion but the inclusion of an ex-cop PI in the middle of a nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) attack just jars from the outset I guess and never adequately convinces. The parts that work best for me are the interplay between the mayor & Kelly and also between Kelly and Rodriquez and these work best with a local slant and when you start getting into NBC, Homeland Security & martial law you just wonder how easy it is for Kelly to walk around the quarantine zone. Maybe I was slow to spot the connections but maybe this would have worked best as an out and out conspiracy thriller rather than a whodunnit that morphs into a conspiracy. Won't exactly set the world alight with this one but Michael Harvey is a good writer and even a relatively poor entry from him is still probably better than a lot of the other junk out there.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A Blue Line train in Chicago is going faster than it should. The vibrations of the train's passage rattles the rails and causes a light bulb to become loose and fall. Soon, people become sick and begin to die.P.I. Michael Kelly is asked to help with security when it is determined that there could be a threat of a biological weapon on the Chicago railway line.As the disease spreads and the death toll mounts, the Dept. of Homeland Security comes to Chicago and quarantines a part of the city. This allows some criminals the opportunity to rid themselves of their rivals. Looting and buring of buildings begin.De. Ellen Brazile leads the charge in attempting to identify the pathogen and develop a vaccine while Kelly searches for the person responsible for unleashing this deadly killer.This is an entertaining story where the author shows his ability to put together a tense, well-plotted novel